Have you ever really thought about how music can affect your creativity, the stories you tell, or even the characters in your stories? I write about connections between writing and music this week on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog: “Where Words Fail, Music Speaks.” I’ll see you back here in a couple of weeks!
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Songwriting Sparks at the Bluebird Café
The Bluebird Café in Nashville has a storied past, as die-hard country music fans will tell you. Not being one of those, I hadn’t heard of it before this past weekend. Shame on me. The Bluebird Café is a tiny little “listening room” tucked into an unassuming strip mall, far from the noise and neon […]
Art and Smiles in a Quarantined World
I saw one of my favorite bands perform live today. Well, “live” in the sense that at the same time I was watching them online, they were playing together. Well, “playing together” in the sense that although each was playing an instrument alone in their own home, they somehow managed to sync up with each […]
10 Signs You Weren’t Too Old to Attend Last Night’s Punk Rock Concert
By Kelley Lindberg I can’t get enough of these guys! The Offspring at The Complex, Salt Lake City 2014 1. You’re proud of yourself for standing for 5 hours because it was general admission. 2. You made it home with both shoes. (Not everyone did.) 3. You survived the mosh-pit circle, which you accidentally got shoved […]
